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Ordinary World (2016)
Unfinished
The title says it all. I thought the movie looked interesting which is why I watched it. After all, I know a lot of people in his situation (not that far off myself) so I was at least hoping for some familiarity feels especially since Billy Joe's in the movie so he'd bring the role some realism.
Most of the movie, although there are things I would have done differently, I was enjoying myself and it seemed like it was heading a good direction. Then it just stopped. Done... roll credits. There were all sorts of possibilities and various situations that were prepped for exploration all left unsatisfied.
If I want to watch someone be cranky about their 40th birthday while bemoaning the rock star life they could have had, I have plenty of real life friends to watch do that. A movie I expect to at least shove me through the Premise > Conflict > Resolution cycle... you know 3 acts.. blah blah blah. This one left me with 2/3 and I truly felt empty at the end denied the 1/3 of the movie they were too lazy to shoot. Of course given the apathetic, slacker demeanor they overplayed in Billy Joe's character, maybe that was the intention? "Just like the main character we're too apathetic to finish anything we start."
Anyway... boo. Directors Cut? You can shoot it and polish it now and we can all come back and watch the extended edition a year from now! ;-)
Don't Breathe (2016)
Read The Damn Title!
I checked the spoiler box but honestly a movie that starts out showing you the ending is hard to spoil. How they get there is usually the interesting part but this one just made me yell at it for the duration.
My biggest pet peeve in any movie is characters that are unbelievably dumb just to keep the plot moving along. The premise of the movie is a battle between a sightless but well skilled combat vet and a small crew of hooligans (well in sight but not so much in battle). The problem is the kids greatest strength is to stay quiet.. AKA "Don't Breathe" yet they spend the entire moving failing to Shut The F%^& Up! It's not *that hard to stay quiet yet minute after minute of this movie they can't manage to pull that off in the slightest. I'm sorry but, burnouts they may be, they are smarter than that and the movie fails work with that in a believable way.
Honestly acting was decent. The film was shot well and looked fine. My entire beef is with the script. Boo.